On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 03:57:25PM +0100, Henry Law wrote: > On 23/10/12 12:34, Petr Sumbera wrote: > >libxml2-2.9.0/doc/xmlcatalog.1:.TH "XMLCATALOG" "1" "$Date$" "libxml2" > >"xmlcatalog Manual" > >libxml2-2.9.0/doc/xmllint.1:.TH "XMLLINT" "1" "$Date$" "libxml2" "" > > > >I would expect instead of $Date$ some real date string. Not sure how > >this shall works but $Date$ is not translated by xsltproc.. > > This looka to me like one of the keywords that coders put into > source code that is stored in a versioning system such as CVS. The > string "$Date$" is supposed to be replaced by the date on which the > code was checked in. Therefore it's not intended to be translated > by xsltproc: it shouldn't ever get that far. > > See http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/cvs/cvs_16.html for an > explanation of how CVS is supposed to use these strings.
yeah, that comes from doc/xmlcatalog_man.xml <!-- date should be the date of the latest change or the release version --> <date>$Date$</date> this was written nearly a decade ago, at the time we were using CVS so this was working I guess. But git doesn't do that kind of tricks anymore. 2 options, either remove it or do some preprocessing before generating the man page (and html page) Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Open Source and Standards, Red Hat veill...@redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ xml@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
